Kia ora koutou Event Date: Mon 2nd - Wed 4th Oct, 2023 Event Timing: 9:30am - 3pm daily Tironui Music Trust is running a 3 day holiday programme at Papatoetoe Intermediate. We will bring together music students from across our 10 schools and scholarship network to make music, hone ensemble / ...

The Tironui Music Trust’s Executive Chair, Justine Cormack, is stepping down from the board at the end of 2021. A highly regarded professional violinist, Justine has served on the board as its music advisor for the past eight years, the last three within the capacity as Executive Chair. A busy ...

We are looking for an enthusiastic clarinet/saxophone tutor to teach group lessons in our partner schools in Papatoetoe, Auckland. If you are an experienced musician and thrive working with primary and intermediate school children (years 5 – 8), then we would love to hear from you. The role: To teach ...

2021 started with a bit of a bump, with Papatoetoe in the midst of a Covid outbreak, but since getting back into things our 600+ students have been revelling in their music making. Each year we are visited by some wonderful professional music groups who play for and inspire our ...

There is no doubt, it's been a challenging year with Covid-19 in the mix. We lost ten teaching weeks within the programme but with the dedication of our incredible tutoring team and the support of each of our ten partnering schools, 2020 was still a successful year of learning and ...

Due to complications due to Covid-19 and with the safety of all in mind, there will be no public showcase performances by the students of the Tironui Music Trust programme this year. Our 10 partnering schools will all be hosting performances for their band and string ensembles within the final ...

We are already mid-way through the 2020 school year and the winter school holidays have just started. Of course, the year has been anything but normal. This newsletter brings you up to date with what's been happening these past few months as we've rolled with the COVID-19 punches. We have ...

We are thrilled to announce our three 2019 Tironui Music Trust Scholars. From left to right, they are Deziyah Lenati, viola, Imroz Ali, cello and Dylan Tran, violin. Congratulations to these talented new scholars who will receive private lessons with Tironui Music Trust tutors throughout their high school years ...

Watch the full concert performances of our year 6-8 band and string ensembles within the 2019 Showcase concert on 6 Nov 2019. There are a few extra performances from our scholarship students too ...

With close to 550 students now enjoying the riches of music within the Tironui Music Trust programme, we have been looking for new performance opportunities for the students to share their achievements within the broader community. It is truly heart-warming when our students take their instruments out into their neighbourhoods ...

We performed at the Otara Market on 21 Sept, 2019. Blessed with perfect weather we had a huge turnout for both bands and strings and their families. The students performed brilliantly and the large audience just loved it. It was so gratifying to feel such a strong connection to our ...

Concert Band students once again participated in the Honours Band Festival on 16 and 17 September. Two days of sectional and full rehearsals culminated in a performance of six engaging pieces at Auckland Town Hall on Tuesday 17 September. This was a whopping band – 450 students from 14 schools! ...

The concert band students from Papatoetoe Intermediate have been out and about recently. On Friday 30 August they visited Refugees As Survivors - New Zealand (RASNZ), a refugee settlement centre in Mangere. As well as performing for families who were very recent arrivals to New Zealand, our students gained knowledge ...

Welcome to our first ever e-newsletter. In this ‘first-edition’ we have some exciting developments to share, along with other news and updates to keep you in the loop with all things Tironui. 2019 got off to a roaring start with our biggest ever number of students enjoying the benefits of our ...

Our most long standing Tironui Music Trust teacher, cellist Robin Snape, reports on her visit to an inspiring music school in Finland: "In April, I travelled to the East Helsinki Music School in Finland  to spend a week watching a wonderful music program in a primary school. I really felt the ...

We are thrilled to announce our 2019 Scholarship Students, who will all receive private instrumental lessons throughout the school year. This years new scholarship students are: Jordan Gow (Year 9 trumpet) studying with Tom Chester Caitlyn Singh (Year 9 trombone) studying with Tom Chester Aaliyana Televave (Year 9 flute) studying ...

Having been at the helm of the Tironui Music Trust since its inception in 2005, Peter Hubscher has decided that from the beginning of 2019 the time is right for a new Chairperson to lead the Trust. During his 13 years of leadership the programme has expanded steadily, and is ...

Coming from a non-musical family, we had no plans or ideas of introducing playing an instrument to Kirstin. However she came home from school excited about the possibility of joining the Tironui Music Programme so we agreed that we would support her in her new endeavour, even though we were ...

Ipolani Magalei, our first Scholarship recipient in 2016, delighted herself and family, her teacher Robin Snape, and the Tironui Trust, when she passed her ABRSM Grade 3 cello exam with Distinction in 2017.  This year she continues her lessons and is working towards ABRSM Grade 4. Warmest congratulations to Ipolani ...

Natalie Tantrum, violin/viola tutor and the String Team Leader at Papatoetoe South School, shared a heart warming story at the end of Term 1. She introduced an arrangement of the Samoan song Savalivaliwhich PSS students know and love. Natalie wished to help one student who, although gifted, was struggling to ...

At the 2017 annual showcase concert, scholarships were awarded to five outstanding Year 8 students to enable them to continue their instrumental studies in 2018 as they leave the Tironui fold and move on to secondary school.  As well as displaying musical ability and perseverance, all have the full and ...

Bailey Road School have been very privileged in being offered the amazing opportunity to be recipients of the Tironui Trust this year [2017]. We are thrilled to be included in this extremely valuable programme, to enrich the lives of some of our students.  The model that builds over several years ...

Twelve students from the Papatoetoe Intermediate Concert Band attended the Honours Band Festival at King's School over two days in August, culminating in a massed performance by over 300 students at Auckland Town Hall.  Our students were highly motivated by this, with those who will still be at the school ...

Eight members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra played for string students from Papatoetoe Central and East Schools in September (2017).  The concert included a performance of Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring with the Papatoetoe East students singing the chorale.  Additionally, one of our violin students was selected to play ...

Thanks to Helene, Monique, Gillian and Rolf of the New Zealand String Quartet for their inspirational performance at Papatoetoe South School in August (2017). They brought 50 minutes of joy to these young people - who were transfixed. Thanks also to Christine Argyle, NZSQ Manager, who commented that they considered ...

2016 saw more than 430 children involved in the annual concert, so to accommodate them all it was held in the Sir Woolf Fisher Arena at the Vodafone Events Centre.  Thanks to the tremendous efforts of our Manager, Catherine Blomfield, and a large team of tutors, teachers and school support ...

2017 will see the inclusion of two new schools into the Tironui programme: Bailey Road School and Stanhope Road School in Mt Wellington.  They are both full primary schools, so the students will be able to complete the full 5-year string course with no change of school.  The Tironui Board ...